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Account of charge and discharge between John, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun, and William Robertson, writer in Edinburgh, in respect of the Earl's estate.
File
Identifier: MS.988
Scope and Contents
With account of final balance signed in 1780.
Dates:
1769-1777, 1780.
Correspondence, estate, financial, and legal papers of the Hunters of Glencarse and Seaside.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19711-19733
Scope and Contents
The contents consist chiefly of the papers of Charles Hunter, Cadet, of Seaside and relating in particular to the sale of his estates in 1848. Also papers of his son, Andrew Hunter, Coffee Planter, Ceylon. Andrew Hunter's papers are of considerable interest providing some useful material for plantation management and colonial life in the Ceylon of the early 1860's.
Dates:
1685-1890, undated.
Documents, accounts, memorials and other estate papers, mostly 18th-19th century, relating to the lands of Monreith and the Maxwell family; also some papers relating to property in the Cowgate, Edinburgh, 1643-circa 1700.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.299
Dates:
1643-19th century.
Estate papers, legal documents and personal and household financial papers of the family of Cameron of Fassifearn.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9174/1-46
Scope and Contents
Thepapers comprise letters of and to members of the Cameron of Fassifern family (chiefly John Cameron of Fassifern, Sir Ewen Cameron of Fassifern and Sir Duncan Cameron of Fassifern, and, to a lesser extent, Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel and Donald Cameron of Lochiel), estate and household papers, legal deeds and accounts and other papers concerning Lieutenant Colonel John Cameron and his regiment, the 92nd Foot. A miscellaneous section includes inventories of furniture and books at Fassifern...
Dates:
1643-1901, undated.
Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.82.1.1-82.9.16
Dates:
1509-19th century.
Family papers, chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of the Robertsons (a branch of the Robertsons of Strowan), the Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart, and, on the marriage in 1799 of Margaretta Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart with Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson, son of Principal Robertson, the Robertson-Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3942-3988
Scope and Contents
Among the papers of the Robertsons the chief correspondents are Principal William Robertson, the historian, and his son William, a Senator of the College of Justice. The correspondence of the Principal includes letters of scholars, British and foreign (Voltaire among others), about his works, information on the American Indians, 1774-1777, and threats regarding his attitude to Roman Catholics, 1778-1779. That of Lord Robertson deals with his legal and political activities and the publication...
Dates:
1608-1913, undated.
Office records of Messrs Tods, Murray and Jamieson, WS.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.301
Dates:
1726-1888.
Papers concerning the administration of the estate of Thomas Carlyle.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.166- is now Acc.5074.
Dates:
1881-1882
Papers of the Dunbars of Mochrum.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.282
Dates:
1630, 1791, 1798, 1834-1889, early 20th century.
Papers of the family of Ballantyne of Holylee.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.253
Scope and Contents
Includes letters of J G Lockhart and Robert Cadell.
Dates:
18th century-19th century.
Papers of the family of Carnegie of Craigo, 15th-20th century, of Joseph Cauvin, Writer to the Signet, 1795-1817, and of John Craigie Halket of Cramond, 1861-1910.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.267
Dates:
15th century-20th century.
Papers of the family of Foulis of Ravelston and Woodhall.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6141-6155
Scope and Contents
Sir William Foulis, 8th Baronet, married in 1843 Henrietta Ramage Liston, the great niece and heiress of Sir Robert Liston, the diplomatist. He then assumed the additional name of Liston before his own.
Dates:
1655-1891.
Papers of the family of Smythe of Methven, consisting mainly of material on estate and legal affairs of the Smythes and other related families.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.331
Dates:
1711-1806.